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Excavation

  • Teatro Greco
  • Villa Adriana
  • Tiburtina Villa
  • Italy
  • Lazio
  • Rome
  • Tivoli

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  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • This season saw the excavation of the stage building, perimeter gallery and the area immediately outside the building.

    STAGE BUILDING

    Excavations in this sector aimed to clarify questions regarding the configuration and functioning of this area.
    Trench 45 revealed: the alignment of the internal facing of the wall closing the stage building, a side room at the western end, the wall forming the facade of the frons scaenae and a room symmetrical to the one situated at the opposite end.
    Trench 46 extended trench 17 towards the south where excavations led to: – A more precise definition of the area in front of the exedra with nymphaeum; – Identification of the vestibule floor, delimited by the wall with exedras closing this side of the theatre; – Identification of the ground surface next to the parados, and an understanding of the space closing this side of the scene building.

    As regards the basilica’s interior, what has been recorded thus far reflects what was seen in trenches 17 and 23.
    Trench 48, opened in the south-eastern corner of the west basilica, confirmed the presence of rooms symmetrical to those documented in trench 46, situated at the opposite end. The next campaign will continue excavations in the zone west of the basilica, where the existence of a room was documented, although the perimeter walls have yet to be uncovered.
    Trench 47 was opened in order to investigate the system of access and transit in the area between the latrine and vestibule with exedra. This trench also revealed the continuation of the drains noted in trench 46 and the presence of a lime-kiln dating to the period when the structures were robbed.
    Trench 30 confirmed that the stairway preserved in the crypt, although heavily restored, was part of the original theatre construction.
    Furthermore, the cleaning of the floor above the crypt showed that no traces of the Hadrianic paving remained. The three overlying floors that are visible are the result of various restorations.

    PERIMETER GALLERY AND THEATRE PERIMETER

    Excavations in this area aimed to: – acquire new data regarding the form and functioning of the theatre’s perimeter gallery. – check the existence of a possible communicating structure between the central part of the villa and the area behind the pulvinar of the theatre and clarify the spatial organisation outside the cavea.

    Trench 43 was opened in order to investigate the floor levels both inside and outside the gallery.
    Trench 44, situated at the western end of the perimeter gallery, documented the construction process and dating of both the perimeter wall and the gallery’s internal wall.
    Trench 49 was opened behind the pulvinar and showed that the corridor drawn by Piranesi in his two plans of Hadrian’s Villa did not exist.

    Trenches 31 and 42, opened in order to check the existence of a lateral entrance, showed that there was no corridor here, which had it existed would have been a structure with gardens of which no traces survive.

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Director

  • Rafael Hidalgo Prieto - Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla

Team

  • Inmaculada Carrasco Gómez
  • Loreto Gómez Araujo
  • Juana Román Domínguez
  • Manuel Buzón Alarcón
  • Sebastián Vargas Vázquez

Research Body

  • Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla

Funding Body

  • Consejería de Educación y Ciencia de la Junta de Andalucía
  • Fundación Marcelino Botín
  • Ministerio de Cultura de España

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